Volume 8 • Issue 4 • 1000362 Arabian J Bus Manag Review, an open access journal ISSN: 2223-5833 Research Article Open Access Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review A r a b ia n J o u r n a l o f B u s i n e s s a n d M a n a g e m e n t R e v ie w ISSN: 2223-5833 Pratistha, Arabian J Bus Manag Review 2018, 8:4 Keywords: Strategic control; Strategy orientation; Business environment; Competitive strategy; Business performance JEL Classiﬁcation: M 0 Introduction In recent years, strategic control, strategy orientation, business environment, and competitive strategy continue to focus on academic and business interests [1-4]. is study examines how competitive strategy mediates the eﬀect of strategic control, strategy orientation, and business environment. e examination of strategic control was based on Pratistha‘s [3] scheme. Similarly for strategy orientation and business environment, this study examine the dimensions of both from the previous studies [4-7]. And for competitive strategy’s dimension used scheme Porter’s [8] from. Most study analyze the inﬂuence of strategic control on business performance [9-15]. e using of strategic control scheme can make the company run well all budget year long. is scheme is also looking for that dimension that can give the most contribution for the strengthening business performance. Strategic control play signiﬁcant role for company in achieving the goals [10]. Strategy orientation selection also can inﬂuence on business performance [16-24]. omson [25] also explained that strategy orientation is so important to face competitive business environment by critically explore company’s resources and achieve competitive advantage. Business environment must be a crucial factor for company to increase their overall performance [26-30]. Gul [31] shared the views about business environment and stated that it is a source which well accepted the uncertainty of environment that can impact the business performance. e competitive strategy appointed by the company has signiﬁcant inﬂuence for the achievement of company’s business performance [16,19,28,32]. Slater et al., [21] then explained that competitive strategy has relation with pattern of managerial’s choice to create the market, serve the market’s wants, and how the business create more value for the customer than competitors do. is study uses the method of PLS-SEM. e data collection method is an e-mail questionnaire. For the PLS- SEM method, information from the study uses information from 34 top managers in 34 companies who are users of space technology. e maximum and signiﬁcant contribution of this study is for identifying the signiﬁcant variable that will inﬂuence of business performance. eory and Hypothesis e study in the ﬁeld of strategic control, strategy orientation, and business environment of the company has signiﬁcantly advanced in recent years. ree of them have signiﬁcant impact on a company for running their business. e results from studies by Johnson et al., [33] and Le and Jorma [34] indicate that strategic control have positive inﬂuence on competitive strategy. While other studies suggested that the competitive strategy have inﬂuenced by strategy orientation [35-37]. According to Kafchehi et al., [37] strategy orientation has signiﬁcant inﬂuence on competitive strategy. Courtney et al., [38] explained that business environment can be another variable for inﬂuencing competitive strategy. e studies by Courtney et al., [38] and Slotegraaf and Dickson [39] have explained that the scanning process of both internal and external environment can be very important for developing the strategy. H1: Strategic control, strategy orientation, and business environment signiﬁcantly inﬂuences on competitive strategy (Figure 1). *Corresponding author: Dr. Brian Pratistha, Planning Staff, National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN), Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: +62812-8440-8172; E-mail: pratistha_brian@yahoo.co.id Received August 09, 2018; Accepted September 19, 2018; Published September 25, 2018 Citation: Pratistha B (2018) What should Top Management do for Increasing Business Performance? Arabian J Bus Manag Review 8: 362. Copyright: © 2018 Pratistha B. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. What should Top Management do for Increasing Business Performance? Brian Pratistha* National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN), Jakarta, Indonesia Abstract There have been many studies conducted on business performance. Nevertheless, research on this issue in corporate users of space technology has never been done. This study tries to ﬁll the literature gap, particularly on the use of variables such as strategic control, strategic orientation, business environment, and competitive strategy. This study employs the Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) equation. The unit of analysis and observation unit of present study are a company that uses consumer technology products, and company management, respectively. Strategic control, strategic orientation and business environment are the variables that have a positive and signiﬁcant impact on competitive strategy and business performance. However, competitive strategy does not indicate the indirect effect of strategic control, strategy orientation and the business environment on business performance. This at once denied the results of previous research that makes competitive strategy as a mediating variable to support business performance. The ﬁndings of this research are referred to as business performance models of enterprise users of aerospace technology. Figure 1: Model of hypothesis 1.